Newellton, Louisiana
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Tensas |
| Elevation | 79 ft (24.1 m) |
| Coordinates | 32°04′22″N 91°14′21″W / 32.07278°N 91.23917°WCoordinates: 32°04′22″N 91°14′21″W / 32.07278°N 91.23917°W |
| Area | 0.9 sq mi (2.3 km2) |
| - land | 0.8 sq mi (2 km2) |
| - water | 0.1 sq mi (0 km2), 11.11% |
| Population | 1,074 (2015) |
| Density | 1,960.2/sq mi (756.8/km2) |
| Mayor | Timothy Turner (D) Chief of Police Johnny Gales (D) (Elected) |
| Timezone | CST |
| - summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Postal code | 71357 |
| Area code | 318 |
 Location in Tensas Parish and the state of Louisiana.
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Chief of Police Johnny Gales (D) (Elected)
Newellton is a town in northern Tensas Parish in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population is 1,227 in the 2010 census, a decline of 255 persons, or 17 percent, from the 2000 tabulation of 1,482. Newellton in 2010 was 51 percent African American; in earlier census reports it had been 60 to 65 percent black. The average age of the population there is 41 years.
Newellton is west of the Mississippi River on Lake St. Joseph, an ox-bow lake. Further south toward St. Joseph, the parish seat of government, is another ox-bow lake, Lake Bruin, a part of which is the popular Lake Bruin State Park.
The French explorer La Salle passed through the Newellton area in 1682 as he followed the Mississippi River to its mouth near the future New Orleans.
Newellton itself was founded in the early 19th century by the Routh family, for whom the defunct Routhwood Elementary School was named. John David Stokes Newell, Sr., a planter and lawyer in St. Joseph, the seat of Tensas Parish, named the settlement for his father, Edward, a native of North Carolina who relocated to Tensas Parish in 1834.
John Newell was a Confederate veteran who joined the Tensas Cavalry and fought in 1862 in both Shiloh, Tennessee, and Corinth, Mississippi. In 1864, he married Nannie Newell, a first cousin, and they had four sons. After the American Civil War, he returned to cotton planting on the Cypress Plantation and resumed his legal practice. He promoted public education and was named president of the Tensas Parish School Board in 1866 and again in 1892. He died in St. Joseph and is interred at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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